quantumhobbit

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Comment · 4 years ago
Who else thinks he's hype driving the price up to dump the shares he already owns at a profit? He clearly has no reason to fear the SEC...
Comment · 4 years ago
I’ve always wanted to try this out in practice. It seems like it would be a great way to find gaps in the specification.

There was some research in the early 90’s over multiple implementations as a way to avoid bugs. I still feel like it was dismissed prematurely or could be revisited.

Comment · 5 years ago
Don’t forget the drugs and money laundering.
Comment · 6 years ago
My work would insist on calling the incident response or monitoring room a "war room". And I would quote this every time it was mentioned. It gets old, but I literally can not stop myself from repeating the quote when i hear the phrase "war room".
Comment · 7 years ago
I absolutely have to plug the author’s latest book, Wanderers. It was pretty amazing.
Comment · 7 years ago
How about multiple day battery life?

You probably don’t even need that much more battery, just a smaller screen and slower cpu/gpu.

Comment · 7 years ago
My high school cross country running coach used to navigate by Waffle Houses. As in “4 more Waffle Houses til our exit”
Comment · 7 years ago
14 cents per ride is nothing! Maybe 1% of the cost of a ride.

Maybe they could save a bunch by colo or something else. But would 14 cents per ride really matter at all for their competitiveness. I’m not going to notice a 14 cent difference even if I do bother to price compare Uber with Lyft.

This is a VC fueled market. It isn’t really about small margins of this size.

Comment · 7 years ago
If the company can’t figure out how to add a date to the subject line, they won’t be able to figure this out either.

It’s gmails bug, but I’m amazed they couldn’t figure out hiw to implement the fix. Amazed but not too surprised given how not nimble big companies are.

Comment · 7 years ago
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
Comment · 7 years ago
Many here are commenting that you should pay more and that is true. But how about not wasting the talent you already have?

I’ve had several jobs from startups to big companies and I have never been utilized at anything close to 100% of my potential.

Try getting rid of pointless meetings, distracting open offices, insane IT policies, and needlessly overcomplicated architectures. You may not even need to hire any more enigineers if the ones you have are more productive.

Comment · 7 years ago
Overcast seems to bug out on me everytime I try to play episodes in the order they were released instead of most recent first.

It also never removes played episodes no matter what my settings.

Seriously these should be simple things.

Comment · 7 years ago
We used to macgyver particians out of white boards and project posters.
Comment · 7 years ago
Super common. More common than the opposite.

In fact a version of the above story has happened in the last two companies I worked for.

Comment · 8 years ago
Until they get bored writing grant proposals and lose all their funding.

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